Working with Abused Children: Focus on the Child

ISBN-13: 9780230297944 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 272 str.

Celia Doyle

Opis

This revised edition highlights the ability of all practitioners to undertake healing work to promote the future well-being of abused children. It offers a wide range of resources including personal accounts, assessment techniques, and therapeutic approaches to enhance effective practice.

Spis treści

Preface.- Laying Foundations.- Listening to the Voices of Children.- Understanding and Assessing Children.- Working with Individual Children.- Working with Children in the Family Context Working with Children in Groups.- Perspectives of Children in Substitute Care.- Resilience and Social Support.- Prevention and Society.- The Effects of Abuse: The later years.- Valuing Child Protection Practitioners.

O autorze

DR CELIA DOYLE is Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Studies and Social Work within the Early Years Division at the University of Northampton, UK. An experienced practitioner with eleven years' experience working for the NSPCC, Celia has written widely on child abuse and child protection.

Blurb

Working with abused children is a demanding and emotionally charged area of practice in which practitioners must balance sensitivity with statutory obligation. This thoroughly updated new edition emphasises the need for a central focus on the child and their perspectives, to ensure safe and effective work with children and their families.

Opening with the foundations of good practice, the book goes on to capture the perspectives of children through moving first-hand accounts from abuse survivors. Woven through with frank narratives from the author's own practice experience, it discusses the importance of assessment and explores interventions through individual, family and group work.

Keeping the voice of the child at its heart, this edition features:
? all-new chapters on transitions from childhood to adulthood, and on the emotional impact for practitioners in the field, including coping strategies and practice guidance
? new perspectives on practice within the context of current policy, including the Every Child Matters legacy and the Munro Review
? a range of supportive features, such as points for reflection, practice examples and further reading resources.

Since the first edition in 1989, the rhetoric and terminology on safeguarding children have changed beyond recognition. Yet the need to understand and accommodate the abused child's perspective remains. Working with Abused Children therefore continues to be a valuable resource for students, educators and practitioners working within this challenging field.